$203.5 million still left unspent as business grants offer another shot.

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With $203.5 million still left unspent, the state's Business Recovery Grant program will reopen its application process on May 2 with a June 1 deadline.

Lawmakers adjusted the requirements for the program in the recently approved technical corrections bill. In the first round of grants, about 3,100 approved recipients were hospitality businesses, totaling $257.4 million.

But the other part of the program got less interest. Only 282 non-hospitality businesses received "reimbursement" grants, totaling $22.3 million. That's likely because those businesses were eligible to apply only if they hadn't...